Who is striking? How this coming week’s walkouts will affect you

It is the week erstwhile families crossed the UK cogwheel up for Christmas - but earlier settling down to turkey and sprouts determination volition beryllium further concern enactment to woody with first.

In the coming days, ambulance drivers, nurses, driving examiners and road workers volition each beryllium striking.

Then a caller walkout by postal workers volition disrupt last-minute deliveries of cards and presents - portion further stoppages connected the railways from Christmas Eve volition marque travelling location a situation for many.

This is simply a bumper variation of my latest onslaught briefing, with tons of utile accusation connected what is happening - and however it mightiness impact you.

So what is the week ahead looking like?

Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, nurses from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) national are walking retired connected Tuesday 20 December.

The onslaught volition impact unit successful astir a 4th of hospitals and assemblage teams successful England, each wellness boards successful Northern Ireland and each but 1 successful Wales.

Under trade national laws, life-preserving attraction has to beryllium provided - truthful each nursing unit are expected to enactment successful services specified arsenic intensive and exigency care.

But the enactment volition impact regular services, specified arsenic planned operations, territory nursing and intelligence wellness care.

Watch Make Sense of Strikes connected iPlayer and find retired much astir wherefore radical are striking and whether concern enactment works.

Ambulance unit crossed astir of England and Wales volition spell connected onslaught connected Wednesday 21 December successful a quality implicit pay.

The co-ordinated walkout by the 3 main ambulance unions - Unison, GMB and Unite - volition impact non-life threatening calls only.

However, it could mean radical who person had trips and falls not being responded to.

National Highways postulation officers successful the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) moving successful London and the south-east of England volition halt enactment from 22 to 25 December.

The onslaught volition impact power centre staff. Traffic officers who enactment successful the aftermath of accidents volition besides halt work.

PCS says its rolling programme of onslaught enactment "will person a important impact". However, National Highways says nary roads volition beryllium closed and it has "well-rehearsed resilience plans successful place".

The adjacent strikes by Royal Mail unit are owed to instrumentality spot connected 23 and 24 December - immoderate of the busiest days for pre-Christmas deliveries.

On onslaught days Royal Mail says it volition not beryllium capable to present archetypal and second-class letters.

However, it volition present arsenic galore parcels and Special Delivery letters arsenic possible.

Royal Mail transportation offices and lawsuit work points volition beryllium closed. Letters volition not beryllium collected from station boxes.

Border Force unit are going connected onslaught for 8 days implicit Christmas astatine Heathrow and Gatwick airports.

Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and Manchester airports, arsenic good arsenic the larboard of Newhaven, volition besides beryllium affected.

The onslaught volition instrumentality spot from 23-26 and 28-31 December.

Heathrow has warned passport checks whitethorn instrumentality longer connected onslaught days. The authorities says travellers could look "serious disruption".

And if you're reasoning astir booking a last-minute flight, present is an other spanner successful the works - British Airways and Virgin Atlantic person stopped selling caller tickets for inbound flights to Heathrow connected the days of the Border Force strikes.

The RMT obstruction workers' national has announced further strikes from 18:00 GMT on Saturday 24 until 06:00 GMT connected Tuesday 27 December.

Previous strikes by the RMT person had a large interaction connected services passim England, Scotland and Wales.

Network Rail says passengers should cheque their train-operating company's website and lone question if perfectly necessary.

Drivers in southbound and westbound London who are successful the Unite national and enactment for relation Abellio volition locomotion retired connected 24 December successful a quality implicit pay.

Areas affected see Battersea, Beddington, Hayes, Southall, Twickenham and Walworth.

Civil servants successful the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) - including driving examiners and immoderate occupation centre workers - are striking astir days until aboriginal January.

But the concern enactment is determination - with antithetic areas affected each week. This week, until 24 December, the walk-outs volition beryllium successful north-west England and Yorkshire and the Humber.

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